meyeni, Taeniura Müller [J.] & Henle [F. G. J.] 1841:172, [Pl. 55] [Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen; ref. 3069] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Syntypes (2): MNHN 0000-2428 (1) Mauritius, ZMB 4660 (1). Type catalog: Bertin 1939:87 [ref. 20739], Séret & McEachran 1987:19 [ref. 9312], Paepke & Schmidt 1988:178 [ref. 21041]. •Valid as Taeniura meyeni Müller & Henle 1841 -- (Nishida 1990:92 [ref. 19783], Francis 1993:157 [ref. 25479], Last & Stevens 1994:412 [ref. 23873], Randall 1995:47 [ref. 22896], Heemstra in Smith & Heemstra 1995:viii [ref. 21953], Allen 1997:48 [ref. 23977], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:119 [ref. 24023], Kuiter 1997:22 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:30 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:39 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:32 [ref. 24106], Last & Compagno 1999:1496 [ref. 24639], Johnson 1999:718 [ref. 25471], Compagno 1999:497 [ref. 25589], Nakabo 2000:177 [ref. 25086], Compagno in Randall & Lim 2000:583 [ref. 25122], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:101 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:27 [ref. 25480], Randall & Earle 2000:5 [ref. 25806], Hutchins 2001:16 [ref. 25847], Nakabo 2002:177 [ref. 26001], Allen & Adrim 2003:22 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S94 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:610 [ref. 27495], Adrim et al. 2004:118 [ref. 27715], Bonfil & Abdallah 2004:51 [ref. 27735], Heemstra et al. 2004:3316 [ref. 27945], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:84 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:20 [ref. 28239], Compagno et al. 2005:75 [ref. 29145], Paxton et al. 2006:195 [ref. 28995], Schwartz 2008:38 [ref. 36773], Fricke et al. 2009:12 [ref. 30213], Kimura 2009:14 [ref. 30426], McCosker & Rosenblatt 2010:188 [ref. 30957], Golani & Bogorodsky 2010:58 [ref. 35264], Fricke et al. 2011:347 [ref. 31242], Henderson & Reeve 2011:174 [ref. 38995], Allen & Erdmann 2012:65 [ref. 31980], Larson et al. 2013:21 [ref. 32988], Rajan et al. 2021:3 [ref. 39508], Allen & Erdmann 2024:69 [ref. 40796]). •Valid as Taeniurops meyeni (Müller & Henle 1841) -- (Last el al. 2010:234 [ref. 32461], Ebert et al. 2013:364 [ref. 33045], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:4 [ref. 33988], Psomadakis et al. 2015:104 [ref. 34104], Lim et al. 2015:19 [ref. 34441], Weigmann 2016:141 [ref. 34211], Last et al. 2016:357 [ref. 34581], Last et al. 2016:608 [ref. 35010], White et al. 2017:262 [ref. 35860], Ali et al. 2018:304 [ref. 36183], Fricke et al. 2018:27 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:16 [ref. 36273], Kumar et al. 2018:298 [ref. 36178], White & Ko'ou 2018:62 [ref. 35922], Eagderi et al. 2019:11 [ref. 37020], Fricke et al. 2019:46 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:60 [ref. 36871], Calle-Morán et al. 2020:246 [ref. 37881], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 4 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:210 [ref. 37272], Sonoyama et al. 2020:14 [ref. 37637], Bogorodsky et al. 2021:519 [ref. 38242], Durville et al. 2021:310 [ref. 38802], Ebert et al. 2021:96 [ref. 38234], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:41 [ref. 41223], Grove et al. 2022:15 [ref. 41326], Hsu et al. 2022:4 [ref. 39567], Manjaji-Matsumoto et al. 2022:613 [ref. 39674], Zajonz et al. 2022:24 [ref. 40522], Murase et al. 2023:38 [ref. 40935], Glaus et al. 2024:7 [ref. 40788]). Current status: Valid as Taeniurops meyeni (Müller & Henle 1841). Dasyatidae: Dasyatinae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Marquesas Islands, north to Korea, Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to Queensland (Australia), Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island and New Caledonia; eastern Pacific: Galapagos Islands (Ecuador). Habitat: marine.